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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES YOUNG, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

PEN-RACK.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 26,727, dated January 3, 1860.

To all whom t 'may concern.

Be it known that I, JAMES YOUNG, of Boston, in the county of Suifolk andState of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Pen-Rack, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being hadto the accompanying dra-wings, making part of this specification, inwhich- Figure l, is a view of my improved rack. Fig. 2, a view of one ofthe drawers detached.

The ordinary pen rack which is placed on a writing desir for theconvenience of holding pens, is formed simply of a base of suflicientweight to give stability to the article, from which rises one or moreracks; the only way so far as I am informed in which the base of therack has been utilized, has been to raise its edges to form a shallowopen compartment for holding wafers or pens, but as the contents of thiscompartment were exposed to dust and dirt they were soon rendered unfitfor use.

The object of my present invention is to render this almostindispensable article still more useful and convenient. And my inventionconsists in placing in the base of the rack one or more drawers to holdsuch small articles as postage stamps, wafers, steel pens &c., which arein frequent use and which the person using them requires to have in ahandy place.

That others skilled in the art may understand and use my invention Iwill proceed to describe the manner in which I have carried out thesame.

In the said drawings A is the base of a pen rack made of iron, bronze orother suitable material, which is made of a sufficient height toaccommodate the shallow drawers B, one of which is shown detached inFig. 2, which may be divided by thin partitions a into convenientcompartments b, or may be left undivided if preferred.

From the base A at each end rises a rack O, and in the middle anotherone D, the notches c, in the one D being smaller and of twice the numberof those in the racks C, so that a series of pen holders may occupy therack at one end as at f, with the top of the holder rest-ing in one ofthe notches c, in the rack D and the pen extending over the end raclr O.And another series may be placed with the pens extending over the otherend rack C, thus accommodating a number of pens while leaving sufficientspace between the barrel or thick part of the holders for the fingers tograsp them readily.

Instead of making the rack double as shown in the drawings, it may bemade with only a rack C, at each end to hold a single row of pens; andthe base A, may be occupied by one drawer divided into compartments orby two or more narrow drawers.

The metal bird E shown attached to one end of the base A, I have foundconvenient for holding a penwiper.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is-The above described Vpen rack with a drawer B, in the base A,substantially as described.

JAMES YOUNG. Witnesses Trios. R. RoAoH, P. E. TESGHEMACHER.

